Whiskey Drinking Quotes - Page 2

• To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

  Leo Durocher

  Drinking, Beer, Support

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• I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Beer, Night

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• Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

  William Faulkner

  Drinking, Scotch, Whiskey

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• My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

  William Faulkner

  Drinking, Writing, Scotch Whisky

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!

  Louis Untermeyer

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Louis Untermeyer (1930). “Blue Rhine, Black Forest: A Hand- & Day-book”

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• I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Beer, Safety

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

  Ava Gardner

  Glasses, Hands, Years

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• Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Food, Drinking, Beer

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Thinking, Scotch, Names

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• We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame is always placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so as long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing. I will make mine whisky.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Coffee, Simple

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.152, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Drinking, Food, Beer

  Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”

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• They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

  Casey Stengel

  Stars, Drinking, Winning

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• There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

  Ron White

  Real, Beer, Scotch

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• You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.

  Bruce Aidells

  Humorous, Drinking, Nursing

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• A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Beer, Whiskey, Drink

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Night, Scotch

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

  W. C. Fields

  Scotch, Nerves, Bartending

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• I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

  Jack Kerouac

  Suicide, Drinking, Beer

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• The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.

  David Daiches

  Determination, Drinking, Men

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• No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Men, Scotch Whisky

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• When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

  Max McGee

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beer, Sorrow, Drink

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• Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Dirty, Food

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• There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Alcohol, Whiskey

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